LOGICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ESSENCE OF ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION OF FUTURE TEACHERS OF BIOLOGY

Abstract

The article presents a logical and methodological analysis of the essence of environmental education of future biology teachers. The influence of environmental factors on all spheres of human activity: production and politics, economics and energy, urban planning and development of new technologies, health care and education, and the formation of basic worldviews of modern man. The concept of “worldview”, in particular the biosphere or ecocentric, and “world”. The global functions of the education system are highlighted: neohumanist (orientation of the educational process on the survival and continuation of human development, care for future generations) and ecological (aimed at preserving the biosphere and nature as a whole (Earth and Space), providing favorable environmental conditions). Specific aspects of environmental education are identified. Approaches to solving problems of environmental education in theory and practice are revealed: socio-philosophical, personal-activity, individual-creative, professional, culturological, biological, socio-pedagogical, and systemic. Accordingly, the most important problems of environmental education and its significant shortcomings were identified. A regional program of continuing environmental education has been developed, in which the regional nature of the content of environmental education is preferred, and its three most important components have been identified: natural science, value-normative, and activity. A systematic description of the goals and objectives of environmental education is given, the principles of its construction (scientific, predictive, interconnected disclosure of global, regional and local aspects of ecology, integration, continuity, and system) are identified, leading ideas are identified, and models of environmental education at school are developed. Concepts of real realization of ecological education at all its stages are developed, as well as the conceptual provisions of development of ecological education.
 Keywords: logical and methodological analysis; essence; ecological conditions; worldview; world; biosphere; ecocentric; ecological education; future biology teachers.